Ansys Products+ 2025 R2 with Local Help

ANSYS has announced the release of Ansys Products+ 2025 R2, a comprehensive software suite that spans the entire range of physics, providing access to virtually any field of engineering simulation that a design process requires.

Ansys Products+ 2025 R2 features refined digital engineering-enabling technologies that easily integrate with existing infrastructure, minimizing disruption and empowering teams to collaborate on more innovative products. Supercharged by the power of AI, cloud computing, GPUs, and HPC, Ansys Products+ 2025 R2 enhancements enable faster, collaborative decision-making, broader design exploration, and reduced product design timelines.


1. Advisories
- Ansys Viewer 2025 R1 was the final version of Ansys Viewer released by Ansys. As of the Ansys 2025 R2 release, Ansys Viewer is no longer included in the Ansys Installation program, and support for Ansys Viewer is no longer available. If you have been using Ansys Viewer for graphics visualization, Ansys encourages you to transition to alternative tools or workflows. If you have any questions or need assistance, contact Ansys Support. Note that this advisory is not referring to the Ansys Help viewer, which provides access to Ansys help documentation for customers without internet access.
- Release 2025 R1 will be the final version of the Ansys Additive desktop application, which includes the Additive Print and Additive Science modules. As of this release, no further updates or bug fixes will be provided. As of the next Ansys release (2025 R2), the Ansys Additive application will be removed from the Ansys Installation program, and support for it will end
If you use the Ansys Additive application, we encourage you to transition to these alternative tools:
. The Mechanical application, for Additive Print functionality. Several types of geometry-based AM simulations are available, including laser powder bed fusion (LPBF), directed energy deposition (DED), sintering, and distortion compensation.
. PyAdditive, for Additive Science functionality. PyAdditive allows you to experiment with process parameters for determining the best combination to use in laser powder bed fusion processes of metal parts. See PyAdditive in the Additive Manufacturing Release Notes.
- Ansys Distributed Compute Services (DCS) 2024 R1 was the final version of DCS released by Ansys. Support for DCS has ended. The functionality of DCS has been transitioned to Ansys HPC Platform Services — the next-generation solution for HPC workflow management from Ansys. With support for both on-premises and cloud computing environments, HPC Platform Services helps you manage the execution of simulations while making use of your full range of computing assets. You should now be using HPC Platform Services instead of DCS. For more information, see the Ansys HPC Platform Services page on the Ansys Help site or contact Ansys Support.
- Ansys release 2022 R2 (July 2022) was the last release to support native macOS for the Ansys EnSight product.
- The Microsoft Defender Antivirus program in Windows Security, on Windows 10 and 11, will scan all executables associated with the Fluent and Mechanical products and can cause some performance issues. A workaround consists in adding an exception in Windows Defender for the impacted Ansys executables. Note that such procedure shall be operated by authorized IT personnel with full knowledge and understanding of risks.
- In addition to the incompatibilities noted within the release notes, known non-operational behavior, errors and/or limitations at the time of release are documented in the Ansys Known Issues and Limitations. See the Ansys customer site (p. xviii) or online Help for information about the Ansys service packs and any additional items not included in the Known Issues and Limitations document. Firsttime users of the customer site must register to create a password.
- For a list of issues and limitations in previous releases that have been resolved in Release 2025 R2, refer to the Resolved Issues and Limitations document on the Ansys Help site.
- Ansys Help (https://ansyshelp.ansys.com/) is not supported on the Internet Explorer browser.
- DesignXplorer is deprecated, Ansys recommends using optiSLang containers. The DesignXplorer license (dsdxm license feature) enables comparable functionality for Correlation Analysis, Design of Experiments, Response Surface Modeling, and Optimization

2. Compatibility with Previous Releases
Backwards Compatibility: Ansys 2025 R2 was tested to read and resume databases from the following previous versions: 2023 R2, 2024 R1, 2024 R2, and 2025 R1. Note that some products are able to read and resume databases from releases prior to 2023 R1. See the specific product sections for more information. For those products that cannot directly read an earlier database in 2025 R2, first resume it in a supported version and then resume that database in 2025 R2.
Upward/Forward Compatibility: No previous release has the ability to read and resume a database from a more recent release.

3. Documentation
Ansys Help cannot be launched from Firefox on Linux in a DCV environment for the products CFX, EnSight, and Polyflow.

4. Verification Manuals
The Verification Manuals for the following products were updated for 2025 R2:
4.1. Mechanical APDL Verification Manual
4.2.Workbench Verification Manual
4.3. Ansys LS-DYNA Verification Manual

4.1. Mechanical APDL Verification Manual
4.1.1. New Test Cases
There are no new Mechanical APDL Verification Manual test cases for 2025 R2.
4.1.2. Modified Test Cases
VM215 was modified to include thermal-electric membrane element SHELL229.
4.1.3. Removed Test Cases
No test cases were removed for 2025 R2.
4.2. Workbench Verification Manual
4.2.1. New Verification Test Cases
No test cases were added for 2025 R2.
4.2.2. Modified Test Cases
No test cases were modified for 2025 R2.
4.2.3. Removed Verification Test Cases
No test cases were removed for 2025 R2.
4.3. Ansys LS-DYNA Verification Manual
Test Case Sets:
4.3.1. LS-DYNA SOLVE Test Cases
4.3.2. LS-DYNA EMAG Test Cases
4.3.3. Modified LS-DYNA Test Cases
4.3.4. Removed LS-DYNA Test Cases
4.3.1. LS-DYNA SOLVE Test Cases
No new test cases were added for LS-DYNA SOLVE for 2025 R2:
4.3.2. LS-DYNA EMAG Test Cases
No test cases were added for 2025 R2.
4.3.3. Modified LS-DYNA Test Cases
No test cases have been modified for 2025 R2.

This file ANSYS_Release_Notes.rar lists all the new and updated features in Ansys Products 2025 R2 and also Known Issues and Limitations.

Ansys offers a comprehensive software suite that spans the entire range of physics, providing access to virtually any field of engineering simulation that a design process requires. Ansys simulation gives engineers the ability to explore and predict how products will work — or won’t work — in the real world. It’s like being able to see the future, enabling engineers to innovate as never before. Industry leaders use Ansys to create complete virtual prototypes of complex products and systems – comprised of mechanical, electronics and embedded software components – which incorporate all the physical phenomena that exist in real-world environments.

Ansys Workbench Tutorial for Beginners


Ansys is the global leader in engineering simulation. By offering the best and broadest portfolio of engineering simulation software, we help solve the most complex design challenges and create products limited only by imagination. Founded in 1970, Ansys is headquartered south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Owner: Ansys
Product Name: Ansys Products+
Version: 2025 R2 (8DVD) with Local Help *
Supported Architectures: x64
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Languages Supported: multilanguage
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